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An anecdote: someone close to me had written some of the diplomatic cables Snowden leaked. After the leak they (and others) received stern warnings to not access stories about the leaks on their unclassified systems, because those systems were not authorized to access the classified information (in the New York Times).




On the face of it this sounds silly and futile, but there is a good reason for this approach.

The classification system only works if the handling requirements for information that it covers are unambiguous.




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